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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Richard Winters

1918 - 2011

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Richard Davis Winters (January 21, 1918 – January 2, 2011) was a United States Army officer who served as a paratrooper in "Easy Company" of the 506th Infantry Regiment within the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Winters was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his successful command of the assault on Brécourt Manor during the invasion of Normandy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Winters has received more than 8,191,809 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Richard Winters is the 474th most popular military personnel (down from 392nd in 2019), the 1,391st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,111th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Military Personnel.

Richard Winters was a United States Army officer who served in the 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the U.S. Army.

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  • 59.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard Winters ranks 474 out of 1,468. Before him are Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Franz Böhme, Armando Diaz, He Jin, Alfred Redl, and Arthur III, Duke of Brittany. After him are Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Eberhard von Mackensen, Pál Maléter, Ernst von Mansfeld, Guillaume Brune, and Rüdiger von der Goltz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Richard Winters ranks 60. Before him are John Forsythe, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Edward B. Lewis, Betty Ford, François Tombalbaye, and Rosemary Kennedy. After him are João Goulart, Derek Barton, Henryk Szeryng, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Fanny Blankers-Koen. Among people deceased in 2011, Richard Winters ranks 63. Before him are Lucian Freud, Ralph M. Steinman, Roberts Blossom, Betty Ford, Pete Postlethwaite, and Linda Christian. After him are Dev Anand, Ante Marković, Aristides Pereira, William Lipscomb, Cy Twombly, and Gunter Sachs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Winters ranks 1,391 out of 18,182. Before him are Barnett Newman (1905), Jane Wyman (1917), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), John Sturges (1910), and Wes Anderson (1969). After him are David Morse (1953), Ken Thompson (1943), Alan Greenspan (1926), Herbert Blomstedt (1927), Walter Chrysler (1875), and Bob Saget (1956).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Richard Winters ranks 18. Before him are Albert Pike (1809), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), and Raymond A. Spruance (1886). After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), William Westmoreland (1914), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Benedict Arnold (1741), Creighton Abrams (1914), and Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915).

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